Do western RPG's also count? If so in no particularly order...
-Baldur's Gate 2, even though I came to the scene a lot later than most it's grown on me immensely over the past few years and I adore the modding community that's built up around the entire game.
-Dragon Age - The Entire Series. Pretty much any Bioware RPG is going to make it's way onto my list at some point, but this is one of my consistent favorites.
-Neverwinter Nights - Hordes of the Underdark and Shadows of Undrentide specifically. The main campaign for the base game was... Terrible, I'm not going to lie. I hated every moment of it and only completed the story out of a need to see what the fuss was about. The expansions however saved my opinion of the entire franchise, to the point where I still go back and play HotU on a fairly annual basis. Neverwinter Nights 2 however, did not impress me in the least and I know people are going to hate me for that opinion. I wanted to like the game, I truly did. However the portions of the game where entire swaths of content were cut to meet the deadline are just too apparent for me, and I never got the appeal of Bishop as he was in the released version. KoTOR 2 was much the same. Flashes of brilliance marred by entire missing chapters worth of content.
-KoTOR, because Revan is a bamf and it had one of the best 'twists' in gaming I've ever seen on top of a solid story and combat system. KoTOR 2 -would- have taken it's place had it not been rushed to meet a deadline, as I much more enjoyed it's characters and where the story was heading before it nose dove into the proverbial cliff thanks to cut backs.
-Suikoden 3. I still need to play the first two games and I lost interest shortly after this one, but I still have extremely fond memories of playing this game. Even though I goofed REALLY bad during the final fights towards the end and sent my teleporter into a fight and thus rendered myself having to traverse all the maps on foot to get the final recruits finished. FUN TIMES. <- Is an idiot.
-Fire Emblem, though I only started with Awakening.
-Chrono Trigger, DAT MUSIC.
-Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. This game came out in a very rough patch of my life, and was one of the few things that made me look forward to each day. It's aged like curdled milk, but every once in awhile I'll track down the old modding sites and re-install my old favorites for a run.
-Persona 3, handheld. While I dislike that the cutscenes were dropped for still images this game was my first introduction into the Persona world and thus has a very specific place in my heart. I'm still desperately wishing for another female lead protagonist that changes up the gameplay as well though... Loved the Protagonist in 4 and the entire game as well, but I liked that in the handheld version switching genders actually gave you an entirely new experience with a lot of the Social Links and story.
-Baldur's Gate 2, even though I came to the scene a lot later than most it's grown on me immensely over the past few years and I adore the modding community that's built up around the entire game.
-Dragon Age - The Entire Series. Pretty much any Bioware RPG is going to make it's way onto my list at some point, but this is one of my consistent favorites.
-Neverwinter Nights - Hordes of the Underdark and Shadows of Undrentide specifically. The main campaign for the base game was... Terrible, I'm not going to lie. I hated every moment of it and only completed the story out of a need to see what the fuss was about. The expansions however saved my opinion of the entire franchise, to the point where I still go back and play HotU on a fairly annual basis. Neverwinter Nights 2 however, did not impress me in the least and I know people are going to hate me for that opinion. I wanted to like the game, I truly did. However the portions of the game where entire swaths of content were cut to meet the deadline are just too apparent for me, and I never got the appeal of Bishop as he was in the released version. KoTOR 2 was much the same. Flashes of brilliance marred by entire missing chapters worth of content.
-KoTOR, because Revan is a bamf and it had one of the best 'twists' in gaming I've ever seen on top of a solid story and combat system. KoTOR 2 -would- have taken it's place had it not been rushed to meet a deadline, as I much more enjoyed it's characters and where the story was heading before it nose dove into the proverbial cliff thanks to cut backs.
-Suikoden 3. I still need to play the first two games and I lost interest shortly after this one, but I still have extremely fond memories of playing this game. Even though I goofed REALLY bad during the final fights towards the end and sent my teleporter into a fight and thus rendered myself having to traverse all the maps on foot to get the final recruits finished. FUN TIMES. <- Is an idiot.
-Fire Emblem, though I only started with Awakening.
-Chrono Trigger, DAT MUSIC.
-Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. This game came out in a very rough patch of my life, and was one of the few things that made me look forward to each day. It's aged like curdled milk, but every once in awhile I'll track down the old modding sites and re-install my old favorites for a run.
-Persona 3, handheld. While I dislike that the cutscenes were dropped for still images this game was my first introduction into the Persona world and thus has a very specific place in my heart. I'm still desperately wishing for another female lead protagonist that changes up the gameplay as well though... Loved the Protagonist in 4 and the entire game as well, but I liked that in the handheld version switching genders actually gave you an entirely new experience with a lot of the Social Links and story.
